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Portal to Multidimensional Living

Devadana Sanctuary

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Every moment is an opportunity to be awake, to be fully present and alive. And yet according to spiritual teachings some moments need to be waited for because they give us a greater opportunity. They are moments that belong not just to the succession of days but the patterns of the soul and rhythms of the cosmos. There are moments when many cycles come together, when our individual and cosmic destinies are aligned…

~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Stanley Park Rock Stacker, photo by Marcel Pepin Photography, used with permission

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A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you can see. Roots to leaves, yes-those you can, in part, see. But it is more-it is the lichens and moss and ferns that grow on its bark, the life too small to see that lives among its roots, a community we know of, but do not think on. It is every fly and bee and beetle that uses it for shelter or food, every bird that nests in its branches. Every one an individual, and yet every one part of the tree, and the tree part of every one.

~ Elizabeth Moon

Hana Coast, Maui, Hawaii – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission

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Peace originates with the flow of things,
its heart is like the movement
of the wind and waves.
The Way is like the veins that
circulate blood through our bodies,
following the natural flow of the life force.
If you are separated in the slightest
from that divine essence,
you are far off the path.

~ Morihei Ueshiba

North Cascade Waterfall – photo by Mirwais Azami Photography, used with permission

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Devadana Sanctuary

​Welcome to Devadana Sanctuary, a place where we hope you will find rest, ease and inspiration as part of your spiritual journey. Our goal is to offer not only a forum within which you may share your own inspiring stories, but also where you may receive ideas to nourish your sense of the Sacred in everyday life.

Our main premise is that all life, in whatever form it exists – human/non-human, organic/inorganic, material/non-material – is part of One Life expressing Itself in myriad forms and vibratory frequencies. What appear to be inert objects are comprised of molecules and particles that are of the same living elements as are the molecules and particles of things we generally assume to be “alive”. Also, we hold the possibility that everything in this One Life, which is all that is, is equally pervaded by the One Consciousness that expresses Itself in an infinite array of ways.

In every moment of our daily life, we are in relationship to this Sacred whole of which we are an expression. Engaging everything we encounter as both sacred and conscious brings us into a mindful awareness of our dynamic interconnection and interdependence. This, in turn, inspires us to engage our moment-to-moment experiences more mindfully, respectfully and reverently. When we recognize that everything and everyone we encounter along the way is part of the sacred whole that also includes us, our daily activities take on a richer tone, a more alive essence.

At the deepest level of ecological awareness you are talking about spiritual awareness. Spiritual awareness is an understanding of being imbedded in a larger whole, a cosmic whole, of belonging to the universe.

~ Fritjof Capra

Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska – photo by Devadana Sanctuary

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Some of us are drawn to mountains the way the moon draws the tide. Both the great forests and the mountains live in my bones. They have taught me, humbled me, purified me, and changed me: Mount Fuji, Mount Shasta, Mount Kailas, the Schreckhorn, Kanchenjunga. Mountains are abodes for ancestor and deity. They are places where energy is discovered, made, acquired and spent. Mountains are symbols, as well, of enduring truth and of the human quest for spirit. I was told long ago to spend time with mountains.

From The Fruitful Darkness, by Joan Halifax

Alaska Sunset – Photo courtesy of Maria Miller

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The soil is all of the earth that is really ours. The seasons, with their heat and their cold make the soil. The storms make the soil, with water, the most powerful substance on Earth. The winds make the soil, spreading dust across thousands of miles. The tides make the soil, stirring the river deltas and their fertile slimes. And above all, the trees and the plants, the dead and the digested, the eaters and the eaten, make the soil…We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. ‘It must be somewhere up there on the horizon,’ we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet.

~ An Excerpt from Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, by William Bryant Logan

Athabasca River, Jasper National Park, photo by Devadana Sanctuary

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LOST

Stand still.
The trees ahead and the bushes beside you are not lost.
Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you,
If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still.
The forest knows Where you are.
You must let it find you.
~ David Wagoner

Photo by Devadana Sanctuary – Banff National Park, Canada

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How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth,
With its swirling vaporous atmosphere,
Its flowing and frozen climbing creatures,
The croaking things with wings that hang on rocks
And soar through fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas…
How utterly rich and wild…

~ Edward Abbey

Jasper National Park, photo by Devadana Sanctuary

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